The drive is 239.0 miles, about 4h 15m. Along it sit about 68 DC fast chargers within 5 miles of the route — and 55 of those have somewhere to eat within a 10-minute walk, so the charging stop and the meal are the same stop.
Open this drive in the app →Leave Houston at 8:00 am, take a break in Madisonville at 9:40 am, take a break in Corsicana at 11:35 am and arrive in Dallas around 12:55 pm.
| When | Where | Charger | Food within a walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Leave Houston, TX | ||
| 9:40 am Break · mile 95 | Madisonville, TX Buc-ee's Madisonville | 400 kW 10 stalls | 🥪 Subway 4 min, ☕ Starbucks 7 minacross hwy, 🌮 Taco Bell 8 minacross hwy |
| 11:35 am Break · mile 182 | Corsicana, TX Corsicana, TX - Tesla Supercharger | 150 kW 10 stalls | 🌶️ Chili's 1 min, 🐼 Panda Express 2 min, 🍔 Whataburger 2 min |
| ~12:55 pm | Arrive in Dallas, TX |
Meals fall near their local hour (times are local at each stop), with about 20 minutes for a break and 40 for a meal. It is a driver’s plan, not a charging plan: where you need to charge depends on your car. Open this drive in the app to pick another leaving time.
Typical power along this route is 325 kW, with 53 stops at 150 kW or more and 18 on the Tesla network. Chargers under 50 kW are left out of the list — on a drive this length they cost more time than they save. Counting every DC fast charger, there is one at least every 28 miles of the way.
In order along the route — the strongest stop in each stretch of the drive, so the list covers the whole route rather than filling up with the city you left.
Leaving Houston at 8:00 am, no mealtime falls on the way. The plan's breaks in Madisonville, TX at 9:40 am: Subway is a 4-minute walk from a 400 kW charger; in Corsicana, TX at 11:35 am: Chili's is a 1-minute walk from a 150 kW charger. In all, 55 of the roughly 68 fast chargers along the way have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
About 68 DC fast chargers are within 5 miles of the 239-mile route, 64 of them 50 kW or more. 53 charge at 150 kW or more, 18 are on the Tesla network, and 55 have a restaurant within a 10-minute walk.
No stretch is longer than 28 miles: there is a DC fast charger within 5 miles of the route at least that often.
Counting the fast chargers of 50 kW or more on the route, the chains most often within a 10-minute walk are Starbucks (near 25 chargers), Subway (19), Taco Bell (17), McDonald's (15), Chipotle (13) and Whataburger (13).
It depends on the car. The app's estimate for a 10–80% charge is about 23 min for a Tesla Model Y at the 400 kW charger in Madisonville, TX; about 45 min for a Ford Mustang Mach-E at the 400 kW charger in Madisonville, TX; about 25 min for a Hyundai Ioniq 5 at the 400 kW charger in Madisonville, TX. These are rough figures from each car's battery size and peak charging speed; a cold battery or a busy site takes longer.
About 4h 15m of driving for 239 miles. Leaving at 8:00 am with the plan's 2 breaks of about 20 minutes, you arrive around 12:55 pm.